News: Macedonia

We have started to collect the most important news related to Macedonia in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

World news related to Macedonia – overview

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• February 24th 2019 – June 16th 2018
• June 13th 2018 – August 7th 2016
• August 7th 2016 – April 12th 2016
• April 11th 2016 – March 6th 2016
• March 4th 2016 – December 3rd 2015
• December 3rd 2015 – August 27th 2015
• August 23rd 2015 – June 14th 2015
• June 5th 2015 – May 10th 2015
• May 6th 2015 – August 28th 2013
• March 28th 2013 – March 29th 2011
• March 29th 2011 – September 5th 2009
• August 25th 2009 – April 12th 2008
• March 6th 2008 – October 30th 2006
• July 6th 2006 – February 18th 2006

Macedonia: news

Greece condemns tear gas use on migrants

Monday, April 11th 2016, 7:04
related countries: Greece

Greece condemns the action of Macedonian police after tear gas is used on migrants trying to break through the border, leading 300 people to seek treatment.
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VIDEO: Greece migrants moved to new shelters

Sunday, March 27th 2016, 1:22
related countries: Greece

Greece has begun moving migrants from a camp near it's border with neighbouring Macedonian, where more than 11,000 people are living in difficult conditions.
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VIDEO: Migrants in limbo on Macedonia border

Saturday, March 26th 2016, 7:33
related countries: Greece

Authorities in Greece have been trying to persuade migrants in a camp near the border with Macedonia to move to official reception centres.
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VIDEO: Human chain across fast-flowing river

Monday, March 14th 2016, 20:45
related countries: Greece

Hundreds of migrants have crossed a fast-flowing river in a bid to cross into Macedonia from Greece.
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Migrants break through Macedonia border

Monday, March 14th 2016, 18:23
related countries: Greece

Hundreds of migrants break through the Greek border with Macedonia after leaving a camp where thousands are stranded in worsening conditions.
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VIDEO: Syrian refugee plays piano for Ai Weiwei

Saturday, March 12th 2016, 19:43
related countries: China, Greece, Syria

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei set up a piano in the middle of a refugee camp on the Greek-Macedonian border.
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VIDEO: Chaos as migrants jostle for food supplies

Friday, March 11th 2016, 12:32

There has been chaos and fighting as migrants jostle for food supplies on the Macedonia Greece border
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VIDEO: Conditions 'dreadful' for stranded migrants

Thursday, March 10th 2016, 17:49

Some 13,000 migrants are now stranded at the Idomeni camp on the Macedonia-Greece border where conditions have been described as 'truly dreadful'.
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Macedonia shuts border to migrants

Wednesday, March 9th 2016, 18:11
related countries: Greece

Macedonia says it will no longer let any migrants cross its border with Greece, leaving some 13,000 stranded in a sprawling camp.
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VIDEO: Torrential rain floods Greece migrant camp

Tuesday, March 8th 2016, 16:26
related countries: Greece

Migrants stranded on Greece's border with Macedonia are living in a tents surrounded by mud and water.
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EU and Turkey hold 'difficult' summit

Monday, March 7th 2016, 18:00
related countries: Belgium, Greece, Turkey
related places: Brussels

The EU holds a key summit with Turkey on tackling the refugee crisis, as the Turkish president accuses the EU of failing to deliver on aid.
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VIDEO: 'Better for us to stay in Syria and die'

Monday, March 7th 2016, 6:48
related countries: Greece, Syria

Alaa and Abdul Aziz, a brother and sister from Syria stranded on the Greek-Macedonian border at Idomeni, tell Christian Fraser about the reality of life as migrants.
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VIDEO: MSF: Children ill in migrant camp

Sunday, March 6th 2016, 6:47
related countries: Greece

Hundreds of children stranded in a migrant camp on the border of Greece and Macedonia are suffering from worrying respiratory infections because of poor weather conditions and a lack of hygiene, according to the aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres.
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